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part 11

By Di_Hard on Sun, 15 May 2022

A voice, deep and rumbly, but cosy, too, "HERE'S YOUR WAND, REGN!" , not loud, but it left no room for any other sound in Mary's head. She couldn't...

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wheels to rotors

By Di_Hard on Fri, 06 May 2022

in the chrysalis of shock we change - made to fight for self respect or flight on wings of fear high above what once we held dear. All the DNA that...

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indigo

By Di_Hard on Wed, 04 May 2022

In-dig O, Earth, our slow whirled world here, find waiting flowers of Love everlasting safe-kept all year for two weeks in May, every year whatever...

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butterfly moment

By Di_Hard on Sat, 30 Apr 2022

truants of moonlight soft as forgetting wings, pale, delicate flicker in arcs then fold, as hair-fine feet cling, taste star white wild garlic...

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A terrible memory to be

Posted on Tue, 14 Jan 2020

A terrible memory to be carrying in you. I can only echo Insert and Rhiannon? I hope your shoulder stops hurting. I know what it's like to be near the bottom. The important thing is to find your choices, to know you are where you are because you...

Posted in The policeman sat in the armchair

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"Stars seeded"

Posted on Thu, 15 Nov 2018

"Stars seeded"

"they passed taxis, night buses, lonely punters stumbling on the long walk home."

"the Firth of Forth moving in glittering sheets below them. The bridge lights were reflected in the dark water as if a row of...

Posted in Aura (19)

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what a great metaphor for

Posted on Wed, 19 Jun 2019

what a great metaphor for aging

We walked the plateau

Flat and scattered green

But now in this desert scape

Dragging our bags behind.

Pink is a halfway colour, isn't it? Unthreatening, which is why it's so scary...

Posted in My Favourite Colour's Changed

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You've conveyed all your

Posted on Tue, 12 Mar 2019

You've conveyed all your feelings brilliantly, specially how jobs are seen as defining people, so not having one makes a person a blob. And yet not having a specific shape/a slot to fit into, makes you able to go anywhere, the possibility of...

Posted in Last Week I Lost My Job (Rimus Dissolutas)

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BRILLIANT!!!

Posted on Wed, 20 Feb 2019

BRILLIANT!!! This is absolute magic :0)

love "pale posy bunches" "coin wings" Wow! "seed-bulge" perfect . Also "far beyond their leafing"

well, all of it, really!

Insert, i wasn't sure what the trees across the road...

Posted in The fruit of the elm

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Very interesting to read his

Posted on Fri, 02 Feb 2018

Very interesting to read his story. I only really knew of him from hearing an interview about how by the time they let working class people into Oxford it was so dummed down there was no point going there, and that the elites never accepted him...

Posted in Les Rowse, Philippe and I

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You are quite right Tom, it's

Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017

You are quite right Tom, it's just a collection of nature scenes. It's just that I realised that someone from centuries ago could have seen them, too. And while I think of the wood as a beautiful place to go and see the sun and hear the birds....

Posted in time travelling

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OOOOh, could he be the baby

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

OOOOh, could he be the baby she had to give up? Great contrasts in this part, between weak Aefelthrith and strong Dolly, and frail "Arry's Mum and super strong Gwladys

Posted in Caring (Episode 32 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid)

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Have heard of someone

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

Have heard of someone becoming "a shadow of their former self" but not the idea of there being a shadow of possible future self. I found this sentence most interesting : "A mirror showing him a version of himself he no longer knew how to reach...

Posted in The Second Shadow

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Makis brings a glimpse of

Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025

Makis brings a glimpse of peace in our troublous times, in this Pick of the Day. Please do share if you enjoy it too